The Cleaner appears, and the laws clash.

At the end of the corridor, the teeth-grating sound of metal rubbing against metal and heavy footsteps grew closer, like death knells beating against their hearts.

A terrifying pressure, a mixture of absolute Order and pure destruction, arrived first like a tangible tsunami, causing Su Wanqing's face to turn pale and making it hard for her to breathe; the radiance of her Nine-Orifice Exquisite was suppressed to its limit.

Nightmare's eyes were sharp as a hawk's, and his rule fragment was crazily calculating and analyzing the composition and source of this pressure with unprecedented speed.

[Target Construct 'Scavenger' Analysis:]

[Core Energy: Highly compressed crystal core of Order Law (suspected to be made by extracting World Origin).]

[Attack Mode: 'Existence Erasure' based on underlying Law authority (similar to the Star-Shattering Maze Guardian, but purer and more efficient).]

[Defense Mechanism: Order Barrier (adaptive strength, capable of resisting the vast majority of Law and energy attacks).]

[Weakness Deduction: Its power relies entirely on the preset Order Law network; resistance to 'Absolute Chaos', 'Super-Rule Power', or 'Higher Authority Commands' is unknown / potential vulnerabilities may exist.]

The moment the rule fragment analysis was completed, at the corner of the corridor, a massive figure finally revealed its hideous full appearance!

It was a giant construct over a hundred zhang tall! Its entire body was made of that smooth silver metal, humanoid in form but with colder, harder lines, filled with a non-living geometric beauty.

It had no head; in the center of its torso was a complex, constantly rotating crystal core emitting blinding white light, like its single eye.

Its arms were not hands, but had transformed into two huge, strange weapons with blinding white light condensing within their muzzles that made one's heart tremble!

This was the 'Scavenger'! The ultimate defensive force of this land of Order!

Its crystal 'single eye' instantly locked onto Nightmare and Su Wanqing, and a cold, emotionless mental message slammed directly into their Sea of Consciousness:

'High-threat anomalous individuals detected. Executing final purification protocol.'

Without the slightest hesitation, the giant cannon on its right arm flared up! The white light at the muzzle instantly condensed to the extreme, and a destructive energy that made even Nightmare's skin prickle was brewing! It was pure 'erasure' power based on the Law level!

'Don't take it head-on!' Nightmare's rule fragment instantly determined that the power of this strike far exceeded the previous one; his Annihilation Domain might not be able to fully block it, and Su Wanqing would likely be severely injured by the aftermath!

'Can't dodge! Rule lock!' Su Wanqing said urgently; she felt that the surrounding space and her very existence were firmly pinned down by that power!

At that critical moment!

A fierce look flashed in Nightmare's eyes! His rule fragment forcibly fused the theories of 'information entropy increase' and 'Chaos disturbance' from the primal cube with the 'End' true intent of the nirvana dao seed, as well as the 'Void Realm Dark Devour' fluctuation just simulated, in an unprecedented way!

He slammed his hands together in front of his chest, and his rule fragment flared with light; a massive amount of Annihilation Origin poured out frantically, condensing in front of him into a constantly twisting, shifting sphere—a Chaos Annihilation Ball—that seemed to contain countless Universes being born and dying within it, while simultaneously exuding an aura of extreme Chaos and devouring!

This was no longer pure annihilation; it had incorporated the concepts of 'disorder' and 'Chaos', aiming to interfere with, pollute, and disintegrate the opponent's Order Laws from the most fundamental level!

'Go!'

Nightmare violently pushed this extremely unstable Chaos Annihilation Ball toward the Scavenger!

Almost at the same time, the Scavenger's right arm cannon fired with a roar! A beam of pure white light, condensed to the extreme and seemingly capable of purifying everything, tore through the Void Realm and shot straight at them!

Pure white Order Erasure Beam vs. twisting Chaos Annihilation Ball!

Two forces representing the extremes of diametrically opposed Laws collided violently in this silver corridor!

There was no deafening explosion!

The moment they made contact, time seemed to freeze for an instant! Immediately following was the most cruel and direct mutual annihilation and erosion at the Law level!

Hiss—zzzz—!

Piercing energy screeches and the sounds of Laws shattering filled the entire space! The pure white beam attempted to 'format' and erase the Chaos Annihilation Ball, while the Chaos Annihilation Ball crazily released powers of Chaos and devouring, polluting and disintegrating the stable Order structure within the beam!

Light and darkness intertwined, Order and Chaos entangled! At the center of the collision, space shattered inch by inch, revealing the deeper, more chaotic Void Realm background below! The escaping energy shockwaves caused the silver slabs on both sides to twist and deform!

This time, it was no longer a one-sided crushing!

The power of the Chaos Annihilation Ball clearly interfered with the stable operation of the Order Erasure Beam! The pure white light became flickering and uncertain, and the efficacy of the 'erasure' Law upon it was greatly reduced!

After a stalemate of about one breath!

Boom!!!

In the end, the Chaos Annihilation Ball had the slight upper hand, or perhaps it was that the 'Chaos' characteristic it contained was more effective against pure 'Order'! The Chaos Annihilation Ball exploded violently, dragging the remaining Order beam and a large area of the surrounding Order Law force field into it, turning it into a temporary region of absolute Chaos where even the Laws were temporarily ineffective!

The Scavenger's massive body was knocked backward several zhang by the impact of this Chaos explosion; fine cracks appeared on the silver metal of its body, and the light of the crystal core in the center also flickered violently!

It seemed... to be injured?

'Effective!' Nightmare's spirits lifted! His rule fragment had calculated correctly indeed!

However, the Scavenger's adaptability far exceeded his imagination. Its crystal core flickered rapidly, seemingly analyzing the data from the previous attack.

'Unknown Chaos Law attack detected... Threat model updated... Switching to 'Law Neutralization' mode...'

The giant cannon on its left arm lifted; the muzzle was no longer condensing destructive white light, but instead emitted a strange, transparent ripple like water waves!

Wherever these ripples passed, the chaotic region created by the explosion was rapidly restored to the originally orderly silver space, as if wiped away by an eraser! It could actually actively 'repair' disturbed Laws!

Immediately after, it raised both arms simultaneously; one muzzle continued to emit 'Law Neutralization' ripples to suppress any Chaos attacks Nightmare might use again, while the other muzzle began to condense the Order Erasure Beam once more, and the energy reaction was even more intense than before!

It wanted to eliminate the threat while launching a finishing blow!

'Damn it, it can even self-optimize!' Nightmare spat; the energy consumption of his rule fragment was huge, and that last move had drained nearly thirty percent of his mana. This iron lump was too troublesome!

Seeing the second, more powerful Order Erasure Beam about to form, Nightmare's rule fragment frantically searched for countermeasures.

Trying to outlast it in a war of attrition was unwise; there were no obvious vulnerabilities at the Law level for the moment, and there was no more efficient solution in the primal cube...

Did he have to use the Origin of the world tree seedling? Or... try that damaged Star Spirit Beacon? But that thing was out of energy...

Wait! Energy?

Nightmare's rule fragment swept violently over the constantly rotating crystal core on the Scavenger's chest!

That thing was its energy source! A highly compressed crystal core of Order Law!

If... if he could interfere with or even destroy that core...

An extremely risky idea flashed through Nightmare's mind!

His rule fragment instantly connected the primal cube and the damaged Star Spirit Beacon!

'rule fragment! primal cube! Use the remaining structure of this Star Spirit Beacon as a 'template' and simulate its energy frequency! Maximum power output! Target: Scavenger energy core!'

[Command confirmed! Parsing Star Spirit Beacon frequency... Invoking primal cube energy simulation module... rule fragment energy output maximized... Simulation starting!]

Hum—!

The rule fragment erupted with unprecedented light; a pure and vast fluctuation of Star Laws, bearing the unique flavor of the Star Spirit Race, was forcibly simulated and transformed into a condensed silver beam of light, like a precise scalpel, ignoring the attack the Scavenger was brewing and the surrounding Order force field, striking straight at the rotating crystal core on its chest!

This was not an attack, but rather more like... an identity verification? Or... some specific activation command?

The Scavenger's movements suddenly stiffened! Its crystal core received this familiar (to the Star Spirit Race) stellar fluctuation, and its internal calculations seemed to experience a momentary Chaos and logical conflict!

[Warning! High-level Star Spirit Race authority fluctuation received from an unknown source... Conflict with underlying purge command... Re-verifying identity... Error... Error...]

Taking advantage of this once-in-a-lifetime moment!

Nightmare moved!

He burned the last of his rule fragment's stored energy, his body merging with the nirvana dao seed, transforming into an ultimate gray-black thread that seemed capable of severing Karma, following the tiny gap opened up by the silver beam of light—a gap created by the Scavenger's own logical conflict—instantly bypassing all defenses and appearing directly before the Scavenger's massive crystal core!

'Annihilation... Return to Nothingness!'

He concentrated all his power, all his insights, into his fingertip and tapped lightly against that rotating Order crystal core, which was exuding terrifying energy.

Time seemed to stand still at this moment.